Casey v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Franklin Circuit Court. Hon. W D. Jacoway, Circuit Judge. STATEMENT. On the seventeenth day of February, 1880, James P. Holland and 'William Casey were indicted in the Circuit Court of the Dardanelle District, in Yell county, as accessories to Charles G. Helphrey, in the murder of Burgess-James.
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APPEAL from Franklin Circuit Court. Hon. W D. Jacoway, Circuit Judge. STATEMENT. On the seventeenth day of February, 1880, James P. Holland and 'William Casey were indicted in the Circuit Court of the Dardanelle District, in Yell county, as accessories to Charles G. Helphrey, in the murder of Burgess-James. The indictment is as follows : “The grand jury of Yell county, in and for the Dardauelle District, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse James P. Holland and William Casey of the crime of murder in the first degree ; committed as follows, viz: That on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Harrison,'J.
The motion in arrest of judgment was property overruled.
The guilt of Helphrey is averred, and the facts and the circumstances of the murder are stated in the indictment with the same directness and certainty required to charge him with the commission of it, if he alone had been concerned in the perpetration of it; and it charges with like directness and certainty, the appellant and Holland with having, before the commission of the crimé, feloniously and with malice aforethought incited, procured, aided, counseled, hired and commanded him to do and commit it, and nothing more ■was…
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